Category: Links Dump

How can I be a more awesome crackpot? “Let me begin by saying that the vast, vast majority of the emails and questions I get are really good. But every now and again, I’ll get an email where the implied question (if there is any) isn’t so much,”Is this theory any good?” but: How can… Continue reading Links for 2011-01-01

Christopher Guest | Film | Gateways To Geekery | The A.V. Club “No comic filmmaker is more intimately associated with improvisation than Christopher Guest, an alum of The National Lampoon Radio Hour and Saturday Night Live who made his name as a filmmaker co-writing, directing, and co-starring in improvised films riffing loosely on show business… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-31

slacktivist: Excruciating “The work of a senator doesn’t have to be so painful. If you find yourself complaining because you’re being forced to defend indefensible positions by voting on them, it might be that the problem doesn’t lie with those forcing you to cast a vote and take a stand. It seems more likely that… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-30

Do dogs need sweaters when it’s cold? Plus: Is road salt edible? – By Brian Palmer – Slate Magazine “A major blizzard dropped 20 inches of snow on New York City on Sunday night as it made its way up the East Coast. Monday-morning dog-walkers had their animals decked out in sweaters and booties to… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-28

The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead “In 1974, a Clevelander wrote the Browns complaining of the menace posed by the then-fad of throwing paper airplanes, and implicitly threatened litigation. The Browns’ response is just about the most awesome thing ever committed to paper.” (tags: sports football law history stupid) The Christmas sermon… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-23

Hyperbole and a Half: The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas “I walked through my front door with purpose and gathered my family members in the living room to tell them about my vision. I was going to rewrite the birth of Jesus Christ and I was going to make it POP. My mom, always wanting… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-22

Tron | Film | Better Late Than Never? | The A.V. Club “What’s odd about all this is that the more I see these movies, the more I become convinced they could have been used in happy little object lessons about how God wants only to save us. That includes Tron, a mostly mediocre-to-awful film… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-21

Let It Dough! – NYTimes.com A different take on Christmas cookies. (tags: art pictures holiday nytimes) Crash Test: 2009 Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air | Wired Science | Wired.com “Not sure why they (whoever they are) did this test, but it is pretty cool. This is a crash test between an old and new car. Check… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-20

slacktivist: One win; one loss “At the end of the day, what this means is that if you want to serve your country and put your life on the line to defend the freedoms enjoyed by Republican U.S. senators, those senators will begrudgingly and belatedly allow you to do so if you are gay or… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-19

Eric Cornell: an experimental maestro – physicsworld.com “Winning the Nobel prize aged just 39 could easily have gone to the head of Eric Cornell, the physicist who shared the 2001 prize for creating the world’s first Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). But when Physics World reporter, James Dacey, caught up with Cornell he encountered a firmly grounded… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-18